GetXXX()?

Language is important. The ubiquitous language of your domain. The metaphors you choose to use. The names you give things. Even the words that go into the name of a method are important.

Consider the word "get". It gets stuck on the beginning of a lot of functions to indicate that a value is being returned. But what is it really telling you? 

According to the folks at Oxford, there are multiple uses of "get" as a verb, but there are only 2 that are related to transferring or acquiring, and one of those is about a person.

1. Come to have or hold (something); receive
2. Catch or apprehend (someone)

So get probably means "Come to have or hold, receive" when used in a function name. But there's a problem there. It's referring to something. If you get it, you have it. That's great, and probably what the caller wants. But if you have it, who or what ever used to have it doesn't. Which, as the author of the function, you probably don't want. In C++ when you want to transfer ownership of something you call std::move, not getXXX. So instead of transferring the thing, you return a copy.. Which means you're breaking your contract with the caller. If I call the getBalance function and give it my user id, I don't want the balance transferred from my account to the caller. That would be bad.

Skipping the whole ownership transfer thing, what is your getXXX function actually doing? If all it's doing is exposing some internal value, then maybe don't call it getXXX. Consider calling it XXX, and treat it as a property, not a function. Speaking of properties, if it's a boolean property, think about isXXX. Having isReady() be true or false makes it pretty easy to understand the intent.

If, on the other hand, it's a query or calculation, make that explicit. findXXX sounds like it might find nothing, while retrieveXXX implies an error if it's not there. getXXX doesn't tell you how it's going to respond. Given a file path, extractFilename tells you the file name you get back is part of the full path. Who knows what getFilename will do. It probably gets the filename part of the path, but it also might get relative path, fully qualified path, or maybe turns the Windows short name into the long file name.

So next time you need to name a function, think about what the name implies.